New Oxfam-commissioned research estimates that compared with 2°C, developing countries could be faced with an additional $600bn per year in economic losses by 2050, and see their adaptation finance needs raised by almost ...

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During 2010 and 2011, Pakistan experienced a series of catastrophic floods. Sindh was the worst affected province, where people already living with chronic poverty and accompanying vulnerability were still recovering from ...

Despite increasing awareness of gender issues in most aspects of conflict processes, it remains largely absent in the pre-conflict context, and the limited, speculative research that does exist suggests that the modeling ...

The UN has identified an ambition to “develop effective gender-sensitive early warning mechanisms and institutions” as part of the women, peace and security agenda, and in recent years a range of research and guidance has ...

This report reviews the literature and evidence within the fields of gender, climate change and disasters, suggesting that although there are gaps in existing knowledge and policy is often not based on the existing evidence ...

This working paper reviews different approaches to incorporating gender equality objectives into resilience projects and to monitoring gender equality outcomes. It uses a sample of project proposals from DFID’s Building ...

Many non-medical policy makers, planners and response teams have in the past assumed the mass post-disaster population to be homogenous, and have staged disaster shelters and services that overlooked the specific needs of ...

Hurricane Sandy was a natural disaster of large proportions—a category 3 storm at its peak intensity that struck New York Metropolitan Area on October, 2012. The death and destruction caused by a hurricane can rise numerous ...

This study examines gender differences in communication behavior, risk perception, and preparedness in response to the highly publicized New Madrid earthquake prediction for a 6.5-7.5 Richter magnitude earthquake on December ...

Humanitarian crises can affect women, men, girls and boys in radically different ways; changing social and cultural structures, and redefining women’s and men’s statuses in both positive and negative ways. It is important ...

The aim of the study is to explore the gender issues in disaster and to understand the relationships between vulnerability, preparedness and capacity following a qualitative method on the basis of secondary sources. The ...

This paper summarizes the last decade’s efforts to mainstream gender into early warning systems, as well as the latest developments in this area. As practical guidance, it provides a simple checklist of recommendations for ...

This paper outlines a rationale for improved integration of gender into climate change and seeks to support donors in this endeavor by investigating the challenges and opportunities donors are facing, updating the wider ...